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RE: intersting info
pal,
go to netcraft.com and verify that hotmail runs on windows2000/IIS5.0
hotmail used to run on freebsd but no longer does.
harshal vaidya.
-----Original Message-----
From: manish arya [mailto:manish_arya@xxxxxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Sunday, 4 March 2001 12:02
To: linux-delhi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: RE: [linux-delhi] intersting info
hi!
Harshal , i was talking about windows9.X not about NT or 2000.and win2k
is next of win NT gen not of win9X.
and as far as hotmail is concerned go to http://freebsd.org and see there
that hotmail runs on FreeBSD not on Win2k(i last visited freebsd site about
5 days ago)
and yahoo too runs on FreeBSD
manish
-----Original Message-----
From: "Harshal Vaidya (CTS)" <HarshalV@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sun, 4 Mar 2001 11:43:15 +0530
To: "'linux-delhi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx'"
<linux-delhi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: RE: [linux-delhi] intersting info
> well tell me ,
> hotmail service runs on windows 2000 with iis 5.0
> at least hotmail has been around for more than 3 years now
> and of course it goes without saying that the machines have been on for
> more than 49.7 days and havent gone down for even a while.
> Then how can one beilieve in the "interesting information which you
gave".
>
> harshal vaidya.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: manish arya [mailto:manish_arya@xxxxxxxxxxxx]
> Sent: Saturday, 3 March 2001 19:05
> To: linux-delhi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Cc: anuraganug@xxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [linux-delhi] intersting info
>
>
> here is a bit of information which may surprise u.
> Windows crashes automatically if you don't switch
> off the machine for 49.7 days .This is accepted byMicrosoft.
> Do you know why ? If not read this.........................
> In Windows the Virtual Machine Manager ( here after
> referred as VMM )is responsible for creation ,
> execution , monitoring and termination of virtual
> machines. This VMM which is a 32 bit protected mode
> operating system , provides a number of system
> services at chip level of programming .One of these
> services is "Get_System_Time".
> This particular service loads the EAX register withthe time in
> milliseconds since Windows started .This service is accurate to 1 ms.
> EAX is a 32 bit register. So the maximum number ofmilliseconds it can hold
> is
> (2^32)-1 = 4294967295 milliseconds= 4294967.295 seconds= 71582.79 minutes
> = 1193 hours= 49.7 daysSo after 49.7 days the EAX resets to zero. Most of
> the Drivers use this Time Service to keep track of
> the Time out of various services they provide. So
> after 49.7 days the drives cannot use the
> get_System_Time function of VMM and they crash.
> So do not keep your machine on for more than 49.7
> days. It will not only crash but make a big hole in
> the pocket (the electricity bill).
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